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The Embodied Empath Podcast is a nervous-system-informed healing space for sensitive, intuitive women navigating anxiety, perimenopause, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions.Hosted by Valerie Lundgren—holistic health coach, somatic trauma-informed practitioner,…
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What Is Asking to Be Healed? (opens the original)
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What if healing wasn't about constantly finding something else that's wrong with you? In the final episode of September's Season of Going Inward series, Valerie explores the difference between fixing yourself and tending to yourself . You'll learn why nervous system healing needs to include the whole person—your emotions, relationships, boundaries, sleep, nourishment, movement, hormones, environment, and deeper survival patterns—and why insight alone doesn't always change what keeps repeating. V
Why You Keep Avoiding the Thing You Know You Need to Face (opens the original)
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What if procrastination isn't always a motivation problem? Sometimes avoidance is your nervous system trying to protect you from discomfort, uncertainty, rejection, guilt, or emotions it doesn't yet feel equipped to handle. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie explores the psychology and nervous system science behind avoidance, why avoiding something can temporarily reduce anxiety while strengthening fear over time, and why healing doesn't mean forcing yourself through experi
Episode 30: When Slowing Down Makes You Feel More (opens the original)
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Have you ever made it through an incredibly stressful season only to fall apart once everything was finally okay? In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie explores why sadness, anger, anxiety, exhaustion, and old emotions can become more noticeable when we finally slow down. You'll learn about the nervous system's response to stress, why functioning isn't the same as processing, the important messages underneath anger, and why perimenopause can change your emotional threshold. Va
Slow Down Enough To Hear Yourself (opens the original)
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What happens when life gets quiet enough for you to actually hear yourself? In the first episode of our September series, The Season of Going Inward , Valerie explores why slowing down can feel surprisingly uncomfortable—especially for women who have spent years doing, caregiving, people-pleasing, and managing everyone else's needs. You'll learn how busyness can become a nervous system strategy, why physical rest isn't necessarily nervous system rest, and how slowing down allows us to notice the
How Anxiety Makes You Stop Trusting Yourself (opens the original)
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Rebuilding self-trust after years of overthinking, people-pleasing, and second-guessing yourself Do you know what you want—only to immediately question yourself? Anxiety doesn’t just create worry. Over time, it can make you stop trusting your own decisions, your body, and even your intuition. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie Lundgren explores how anxiety, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and empathic sensitivity can slowly disconnect you from your own inner knowing. We’ll
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